Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. I recorded the movie that is premiering this Saturday. I'm gonna try to finish the book before then.

Such a good book! The movie isn't bad either.

I got sucked into it. I wish I had more time to read!

I did too. It was totally unexpected. I thought it was going to be awful. Mostly because I'd seen the trailers for the movie when my friend gave me the book and it looked so cheesy. And I guess it is cheesy if you haven't read the book, but the book is brilliant.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and it's so fucked. I'm so conflicted,loving and hating it!

That's its power, using stellar writing in first-person to make such a deplorable character so compelling. You're not rooting for the guy necessarily, but can empathize with his obsession. For a while.

Okay well firstly I'd like to thank Irina, for introducing the subject in the first place, I couldn't have gotten sigged without you. This is just so sudden! Um, thanks to Jess for all her support, I didn't think I'd ever get here but you encouraged me to keep trying to be funny, when I didn't believe in myself. And finally thank you Pete, it means so, so much and I am HUMBLED by your choice. God bless y'all! Thanks!

Um, thanks to Jess for all her support, I didn't think I'd ever get here but you encouraged me to keep trying to be funny, when I didn't believe in myself.

OH MY GOD!

Okay, well first of all I would like to thank Amii for choosing to cast me in her amazingly written thank you speech. You could have name-dropped anyone and you chose me. I totally see why though, you have impeccable taste. I'd also like to say thank you to Amii for not giving up on our dream and fighting the good fight until we got our big break, you are my hero. My only goal is to one day, outshine you. Oh oh oh, a big thanks to Amii for being my hilarious rock even when times were tough and beany air was afoot, you never stopped being there to make me laugh.

But the biggest thanks definitely goes to me because without me there would be nothing to thank anyone about, ever.

I've also started accidentally started reading Devil in the White City. I just picked it up in a store (when I was meant to be buying wedding gifts for other people) and before I knew it, I have to buy the damn thing.

I'm reading my monthly book club book, How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Moshin Hamid. It's written in the second-person and in the style of a self-help book but... a novel! The narrative style isn't as grating as I thought it would be. In fact, I'm rather enjoying it.

Excellent complement to the Sherlock Holmes stories. Puts them in the context of the 19th century society, with an emphasis on the beginnings on forensics (fingerprints, poisons, etc).
Also great description of real cases and famous figures (Vidocq, Joseph Bell, Hans Gross) who inspired Conan Doyle.

i did make it through about half of The Memoirs of Vidocq before it was due back (interlibrary loan item). that was a couple years ago. a very neat person suggested i read it. he used to hate reading when we were kids, so i figured if as adults he was making a book recommendation to me it had to pretty good.

that guy is a window washer of very tall buildings in LA, last i knew.

Well, the translator just kept the style in The Pacific Journal chapters. Like:

My friend explained he had intended to run to London, but Cpt. Molyneux was most insistent. Henry promised to think the matter through & come to a decision by Friday morning, the day now set for Prophetess's departure.

Or in Sloosha's Crossin', where the characters don't speak proper English, and you get apostrophes every couple of words, the translation was again all right, obviously compensating with other type of mistakes in Romanian.

Honokaa was the bustlin'est town o' nor-east Windward, see, Old'uns'd builded it high 'nuff to s'vive the risin' ocean, not like half o' Hilo nor Kona neither what was flooded most moons.

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